Veilleux Jennifer C, Lovett David E, Skinner Kayla D, Ham Lindsay S
a University of Arkansas , Department of Psychological Science , Fayetteville , Arkansas , USA.
Subst Use Misuse. 2018 Apr 16;53(5):773-781. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2017.1365087. Epub 2017 Sep 29.
Visual alcohol cues are often used to elicit craving (e.g., cue-reactivity), and selection of appropriate comparison cues is important to isolate the specific effect of craving for alcohol.
In the current study, via the development of a new set of non-alcoholic beverage cues, we examine measurement and methodological choices in testing alcohol images for cue-reactivity studies.
The current project combined two independent studies of hazardous (Study 1; n = 80) and recent drinkers (Study 2; n = 244) recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk. Participants viewed either alcohol cues (Lovett, Ham, & Veilleux, 2015 ) or newly developed non-alcoholic beverage cues. We also randomly assigned people to rate the cues regarding motivational (e.g., affect, craving for alcohol, resistance to alcohol) responses or non-motivational features (e.g., artistry).
In Study 1, we included presentation of non-beverage objects, and found that beverages were rated as more positive, less negative and with higher craving than non-beverage objects. In the combined sample, we found that the alcohol beverage cues were associated with greater craving than non-alcoholic beverage cues, and that there were no differences between cue types on either positive or negative affect. We also found an interaction between drinking experience and cue type in predicting resistance to drinking.
We conclude that the choice of control cues in alcohol cue-reactivity studies is important, and that the currently developed non-alcoholic beverage cue set provides an adequate control for alcohol beverage cues for use in cue-reactivity paradigms.
视觉酒精线索常被用于引发渴望（如线索反应性），选择合适的对照线索对于分离对酒精渴望的特定效应很重要。
在当前研究中，通过开发一组新的非酒精饮料线索，我们检验了在酒精图像线索反应性研究测试中的测量和方法选择。
当前项目结合了两项独立研究，从亚马逊土耳其机器人平台招募了有危险饮酒行为的参与者（研究1；n = 80）和近期饮酒者（研究2；n = 244）。参与者观看酒精线索（洛维特、哈姆和维勒克斯，2015）或新开发的非酒精饮料线索。我们还随机分配人员对线索的动机性反应（如情感、对酒精的渴望、对酒精的抵抗力）或非动机性特征（如艺术性）进行评分。
在研究1中，我们纳入了非饮料物品的展示，发现饮料的评分比非饮料物品更积极、更不消极且渴望程度更高。在合并样本中，我们发现酒精饮料线索比非酒精饮料线索引发的渴望更强烈，且线索类型在积极或消极情感方面没有差异。我们还发现在预测饮酒抵抗力方面，饮酒经历和线索类型之间存在交互作用。
我们得出结论，酒精线索反应性研究中对照线索的选择很重要，且当前开发的非酒精饮料线索集为用于线索反应性范式的酒精饮料线索提供了充分的对照。
